BF4 AMD driver crashes on Windows 7 with newest drivers
My system:
Intel Core i5 4670K
12 gb DDR 3 1333 RAM
Sapphire Dual-X R9 280X 3gb GDDR5
Windows 7 ultimate (64bit)
With the boxed AMD driver 13.6 I got some weird renderings and errors/crashes with DirectX as mentioned in other forum topics. Now I tried the 13.9 and 13.11 beta drivers and the DirectX problem appears to be fixed. However, with both newer drivers I get the same problem: AMD display driver is not responding and has recovered. With multiplayer I can usually play for about 10 minutes, and single player is completely impossible as it crashes during the very first conversation with NPCs. Strangely the conversation keeps rolling but the screen turns blank. Every time I have to go to task manager to shut BF4 down from there.
How can I fix this? I read that most driver updates focus on problems with Windows 8, but I keep having the same problem with Windows 7. And it doesn't happen with any other graphically demanding games.